Senior Network Design Engineer

About the role

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability, and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide. We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future.

Responsibilities

• Produce plans and designs to meet network infrastructure and capacity plans for the global production network in line with established standards and product service level objectives (SLO), and help establish a proper balance of capital expenditures (CapEx) and operational expenditures (OpEx).
• Communicate with internal business partners to collect drivers and deadlines for delivering network capacity.
• Create project plans for high-bandwidth network delivery, incorporating New Product Introduction (NPI) solutions and ensuring toolset and process readiness.
• Contribute to the automation roadmap to reduce cycle time and improve quality and consistency.
• Evolve business processes governing the design generation lifecycle (including input gathering, validation, publication, and handoff), specifically defining the governing policies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience with network routing protocols, design and troubleshooting, with network equipment providers.
• Experience with planning and designing networks (e.g., multiple sites, multiple products, etc.).

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in one or more programming languages (Python, Go, or C++) to drive automation roadmaps and automate complex workflows.
• Experience with managing scaled capacity augment/migration projects in a computer networking environment, including data center or colocation environments.
• Experience with network system design, network architecture and technology and network infrastructure.
• Experience with forecasting, planning and design tools, workflow automation tooling and improvement.
• Experience with defining system or process requirements, building, integrating, or delivering large-scale layer 1, layer 2 or layer 3 network systems.
• Excellent problem solving, cost-benefit analysis, and data analysis skills.

Benefits

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $150000 - $218000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits